Welcome!

Hi all!  So yes, it took me a while to decide to start blogging our journey to parenthood.  Rick had suggested that I document everything from the very beginning since this is my first pregnancy but I had mixed feelings about it.  I guess 1) I was a hormonal mess in the beginning and too tired to concentrate on creating a blog, 2) I didn't want to jinx anything because there's always that big What If so early on, and 3) I didn't want to be the kind of person who is always force feeding pictures of their kids and pets to everyone even though I know I am that type.  Now at 24 weeks (6 months), I'm hoping that the baby stays put and remains healthy, and we all go in for the long haul together. 

Has this been an easy pregnancy so far?  I can't say that it's been terrible.  I must thank my lucky stars that I was not hugging the toilet or retching in every dark street corner.  I had my fair share of extreme all-day nausea in the first trimester but overall, I felt okay.  The one thing that did wipe me out was the exhaustion.  I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life and the only past experience I can relate the exhaustion to is the jetlag I got from my China trip.  It's the same exhaustion as when I came back from China and slept for 2 days, waking up to drink and pee only.  Except the pregnancy exhaustion in my first 3 months never went away in 2 days.  It gradually went away by my 5th month and even now, I can't stay awake when I watch TV in the evenings.  But again, it hasn't been terrible and I feel good overall.  Maybe that's natures way of tricking us.  Otherwise, why would women have more children if the first experience was so gosh darn awful?